Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Today it is still raining, which puts us at day 7, blah. It’s another day where they could not go to the far west to work on their project. They were still ok with it though because I was keeping them plenty busy with all the stuff I had to do and the children in the programs loved all this attention. After lunch it was nice for a little bit so 3 of the girls and Steve wanted to go to the orphanage and see the kids so Roland, Ne Ne, and I loaded them up in a tap tap and headed to the orphanage for the afternoon. Being that they had never been here before the tap tap ride was fascinating to them because of how many people they jam in the back of a pickup truck. When we got to the orphanage, the children were really excited to see some new faces. We spent about an hour and a half there and thought it looked like it was getting cloudy again so we loaded up with 4 extra for the ride home and headed back for dinner. On the way home the newbies got to experience car trouble in Haiti because we ran out of gas and then got stuck in a puddle. We made it home just fine though and in time for dinner so that is all that is important. After dinner and devotions some people started up some card games and the rest of us just sat around and traded stories about experiences of the day or of life that related to the trip so far. The generator went off around 10 so we all called it a night. Peace.